'Camel Kids' The Camel Jockeys of United Arab
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Pakistani boy who worked five years as a camel jockey,
starting at age 4, remembers the race as noisy and
dangerous, where more than 50 camels with screaming
children strapped onto their backs would run. He
personally saw about 20 children die, and more than a
dozen injured every week. He recalls: "There was this
one kid whose strap broke at the beginning of the race.
His head was crushed between the legs of the running
camel. Once the race has started it cannot stop.. The
Camel Jockeys
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